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>Some additional software packages will speed up your web site or offer enhanced 
features. You may wish to install these packages.
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>* It is very strongly recommended that a properly configured &#38; working 
email subsystem (for example, SendMail, QMail, ProcMail, etc) is installed on 
your server. Most hosted sites will provide this subsystem. It is beyond the 
scope of this document to cover the installation and configuration of this 
software.
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>* phpMyAdmin (<A
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>http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net</A
>) -- 
recommended only if 
the site will be using the MySQL database system -- phpMyAdmin is a 
cross-platform free utility that can manage an entire MySQL server, but also a 
single database. Many users may not have root (administrator) access to their 
database. If that is the case, you will need to create the database using an 
online tool such as phpMyAdmin.
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>* Enabling GZIP compression within PHP is an easy way to add some speed 
to your site.
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>* PHP Accelerator (<A
HREF="http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk"
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>http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk</A
>) -- PHP 
Accelerator 
is free, able to deliver performance gains and load average reduction to rival 
or exceed the very best alternatives, and is the intelligent choice of script 
caching solutions for PHP based sites.
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